Seen a man standin' over a dead dog lyin' by the highway in a ditch
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He's lookin' down kinda puzzled pokin' that dog with a stick
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Got his car door flung open he's standin' out on highway 31
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Like if he stood there long enough that dog'd get up and run
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Struck me kinda funny seem kinda funny sir to me
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Still at the end of every hard day people find some reason to believe
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Now Mary Lou loved Johnny with a love mean and true
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She said baby I'll work for you everyday and bring my money home to you
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One day he up and left her and ever since that
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She waits down at the end of that dirt road for young Johnny to come back
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Struck me kinda funny funny yea indeed how at the end of every hard earned day you can find some reason to believe
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Take a baby to the river Kyle William they called him
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Wash the baby in the water take away little Kyle's sin
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In a whitewash shotgun shack an old man passes away take the body to the graveyard and over him they pray Lord won't you tell us,
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Tell us what does it mean
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At the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe
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Congregation gathers down by the riverside
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Preacher stands with his bible, groom stands waitin' for his bride
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Congregation gone and the sun sets behind a weepin' willow tree
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Groom stands alone and watches the river rush on so effortlessly
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Wonderin' where can his baby be still at the end of every hard earned day people find some reason to believe
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Reason To Believe
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| Bruce Springsteen |
